Buddy_Christ
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Porn flick chicks are considered "actors." Hell, they're faking orgasim most of the time anyway, and sometimes it's convincing . Also, the Supreme Court ruled that as long as a porn flick is artistic, political, or educational, it is not obscene (don't quote me on that, it's something along those lines, I just don't feel like looking it up right now). With that definition, it's very easy to keep porn legal. Throughout history, the human body has been considered to be a work of beauty and many paintings and sculptures have been created of the nude male and female body. That pretty much solidifies that porn will remain legal, as if they were to rule that it is not artistic, the porn community could create an uproar and demand all naked portraits and sculptures be removed from museums (sp) and art galleries.
One thing holding porn back is that it has been ruled that it is up to the standards of the community to determine what is and what is not obscene. There was a case based out of Pittsburg where someone ordered porn videos that were made in California and those videos did not adhere to what the community considered to be moral. I forget the outcome of the case, but I don't think it was very good.
However, there was another case in Utah where a man owned a video store and had an adult section. They came in and forced him to close shop based on the premise that he was renting and selling materials that did not adhere to community standards. His lawyer killed the prosecution in a very ingenious way, actually commendable for how he went about it. He subpeonead records from the cable and sattelite companies that provided services to the area to see how many times (but not who, that he could not do) porn had been ordered via Pay Per View in the hotels and in private homes, then compared it to a national average from those companies. It turned out that this straight edged Utah city ordered more porn that almost every other city in the US of comparable population. The video store owner was acquitted.
One thing holding porn back is that it has been ruled that it is up to the standards of the community to determine what is and what is not obscene. There was a case based out of Pittsburg where someone ordered porn videos that were made in California and those videos did not adhere to what the community considered to be moral. I forget the outcome of the case, but I don't think it was very good.
However, there was another case in Utah where a man owned a video store and had an adult section. They came in and forced him to close shop based on the premise that he was renting and selling materials that did not adhere to community standards. His lawyer killed the prosecution in a very ingenious way, actually commendable for how he went about it. He subpeonead records from the cable and sattelite companies that provided services to the area to see how many times (but not who, that he could not do) porn had been ordered via Pay Per View in the hotels and in private homes, then compared it to a national average from those companies. It turned out that this straight edged Utah city ordered more porn that almost every other city in the US of comparable population. The video store owner was acquitted.